proposition 38 bypasses sacramento, and makes education a real priority- with the funding, to our local schools and the accountability from our local schools... that we'll need to improve student learning in every classroom. so we can stay 47th... or we can choose proposition 38. i'm voting yes on 38... because it makes our children #1. >> shepard: you are looking live, that is the lower end of manhattan. we have not seen anything like this in nine years. in august of 2003, the great blackout happened in the northeast and new york city went black. this is the next time. the great storm of 2012 has done it this time. we have record flooding on the tip of manhattan and this is a live picture coming through the facilities of our network news service affiliate wabc. the abc owned and operated system here in new york channel 7. all of lower manhattan is dark. i have just received word in addition the union square area which is on manhattan's east side, right down the middle, actually, at 14th street also fully dark. as is the east side of manhattan below 34th street. in addition, around this